JUST IN; The oldest active player in Major League Baseball is a former pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.

Much of the recent news around the Baltimore Orioles has focused on their youth, specifically their star rookies and young prospects. For one day, however, an older former player briefly stole the spotlight.

Art Schallock, who briefly pitched for the Orioles in 1955, celebrated his 100th birthday on April 25, making him the oldest living MLB player.

challock was born on April 25, 1924, in Mill Valley, California. He grew up in California and attended school there, graduating from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley before moving on to the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA.

At the age of 22, Schallock went east, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent before the 1947 season. Schallock spent the next four seasons in the Dodgers’ farm system, but he never got to play with Jackie Robinson or the Boys of Summer at Ebbetts Field.

That’s because Brooklyn traded him across town to the New York Yankees in the middle of the 1951 season for Bob Landeck, Eddie Malone and cash.

With the Yankees in the middle of a pennant race, they immediately put Schallock to work, sending him to the mound for his MLB debut four days after the trade. He struggled in his first taste of the big leagues, getting shelled by the Detroit Tigers for four earned runs on seven hits and three walks in just 2 2/3 innings.